Re: log format for vc-bzr

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar_Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:48:30 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >>  >     --forget-merges 
> >>  >       Remove pending merge marker, without changing any files.
> >>  > 
> >>  > What is a ``pending merge marker''?
> >> 
> >> A "pending merge" is a merge that you have started with "bzr merge"
> >> (or perhaps a "bzr pull" that resulted in a conflict) but not yet
> >> finished with "bzr commit".
> >
> > Terrific!  So I just did a merge, but it is still considered
> > ``pending''?  Who could have thought of a more confusing semantics??
> 
> bzr always requires to commit after a merge.

Then the docs should have said "pending uncommitted merge results".

IOW, the fact that there should be a commit after the merge is not the
reason to call the just-performed merge "pending".  The results of the
merge are pending commit, but the merge itself is no longer pending,
it was already done.